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roaring

[ rawr-ing, rohr- ]

noun

  1. the act of a person, animal, or thing that roars.
  2. a loud, deep cry or sound or a series of such sounds.
  3. Veterinary Pathology. a disease of horses, caused by respiratory obstruction or vocal cord paralysis, and characterized by loud or rough breathing sounds.


adjective

  1. making or causing a roar, as an animal or thunder.
  2. brisk or highly successful, as trade:

    He did a roaring business selling watches to tourists.

  3. characterized by noisy, disorderly behavior; boisterous; riotous:

    roaring revelry.

  4. complete; utter; out-and-out:

    a roaring idiot; a roaring success.

adverb

  1. very; extremely:

    roaring drunk.

roaring

/ ˈɔːɪŋ /

adjective

  1. informal.
    very brisk and profitable (esp in the phrase a roaring trade )
  2. the roaring days
    the period of the Australian goldrushes
  3. derogatory.
    (intensifier)

    a roaring communist

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

adverb

  1. noisily or boisterously (esp in the phrase roaring drunk )
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. a loud prolonged cry
  2. a debilitating breathing defect of horses characterized by rasping sounds with each breath: caused by inflammation of the respiratory tract or obstruction of the larynx Compare whistling
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈDzԲ, adverb
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Other Word Forms

  • DziԲ· adverb
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Word History and Origins

Origin of roaring1

before 1000; Middle English roryng (noun, adj.), Old English rarung (noun). See roar, -ing 1, -ing 2
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Example Sentences

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But none would be as likely to come roaring back as measles, far and away the most infectious of the bunch.

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"My emotions came out, I was roaring like a lion," Whittaker said when asked about the incident on Sky Sports.

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When he announced them, he said they would bring “jobs and factories ... roaring back into our country” — despite skepticism from economists across the political spectrum.

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“Jobs and factories,” he has promised, “will come roaring back into our country.”

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Trump said: Jobs and factories will come roaring back into our country…We will supercharge our domestic industrial base.

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